# off is the time zone offset in seconds from GMT
my ($ss,$mm,$hh,$day,$month,$year,$off) = Date::Parse::strptime($date);
+
+ # new behavior which wasn't in the original old version:
+ if ('commit d857e7dc0d816b635a7ead09c3273f8c2d2434be') {
+ # "msgtime: assume +0000 if TZ missing when using Date::Parse"
+ $off //= '+0000';
+ }
+
return undef unless(defined $off);
# Compute the time zone from offset